Ficus punctata
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Description
Root-climber.
Branchlets drying brown (to blackish).
internal hairs abundant.
Leaves distichous;
stipules 0.2-1.5 cm long, minutely appressed-puberulous, subpersistent or caducous.
Stamen 1.
Distribution
Alor present, Ambon present, Asia-Temperate: Taiwan (Taiwan present), Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Ceram present, Flores present, Lombok present, Morotai present, Myanmar present, Nicobar Islands present, SE Asia present, Sumbawa present, Timor present
SE Asia (Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Indochina, Taiwan, Thailand) and Malesia; in Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, Philippines, Celebes, Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Alor, Timor), Moluccas (Morotai, Ceram, Ambon).
Taxonomy
The two species, F. punctata and F. aurantiacea, as recognized by Corner (1960, 1965) lack sufficient and consistent differentiating characters and are, therefore, here united. The variation patterns suggest that features of the bathyphyll-state are largely retained in the majority of the collections, which have leaves with asymmetric laminas (similar in shape to those of the true bathyphylls, but with coriaceous texture and foveolate areoles), short petioles, and subpersistent stipules. A smaller number of collections may represent the true acrophyll-state, characterized by leaves with (almost) symmetric laminas cuneate at the base, relatively long petioles, and mostly caducous stipules. Intermediate features occur in many collections. On the basis of the variation patterns of the vegetative parts, two major informal entities can be distinguished (each of them with two or more subforms). The indumentum of the fig receptacles tend to be different for the two entities and could be related to the difference in denseness of indumentum between the bathyphyll-state and acrophyll-state.
Three subforms can be distinguished: one with relatively large elliptic laminas, 5-12 by 3-7.5 cm (Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, also in Thailand), the other with smaller elliptic laminas, 3-6 by 2-3.5 cm (widespread), and the third with oblong (to lanceolate) laminas (widespread). Among collections of the latter two subforms transitions to or asymmetric laminas are common.
- a. ‘punctata-form’ — Lamina small, 0.5-5 by 0.2-2.5 cm, distinctly asymmetric, apex rounded, base inequilateral, the broad side subauriculate; waxy gland usually 1, in the axil of the basal lateral vein at the broad side of the lamina; petiole short, 0.1-0.5 cm long; stipules 0.2-0.7 cm long, subpersistent. Fig receptacle usually densely hairy.
In some collections the lamina is always small, usually up to 2 cm long, in others they are mostly larger, up to 5 cm long. Some of the collections have elliptic to obovate laminas, whereas others mostly oblong to subobovate ones. - b. ‘aurantiacea-form’ — Lamina larger, mostly 3-12 by 2-7.5 cm, symmetric or slightly asymmetric, apex shortly and bluntly acuminate to obtuse to rounded, base (sub)cuneate; waxy glands usually 2, in the axils of both basal lateral veins; petiole 0.5-1.5(-2) cm long; stipules 0.5-1.5 cm long, often caducous. Fig receptacle often sparsely hairy.
Three subforms can be distinguished: one with relatively large elliptic laminas, 5-12 by 3-7.5 cm (Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, also in Thailand), the other with smaller elliptic laminas, 3-6 by 2-3.5 cm (widespread), and the third with oblong (to lanceolate) laminas (widespread). Among collections of the latter two subforms transitions to or asymmetric laminas are common.
Citation
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